Detections
Analytics

1.96 SLES-15-020210

Information

The SUSE operating system must employ user passwords with a minimum lifetime of 24 hours (one day).

GROUP ID: V-234890
RULE ID: SV-234890r1009629

Enforcing a minimum password lifetime helps prevent repeated password changes to defeat the password reuse or history enforcement requirement. If users are allowed to immediately and continually change their password, the password could be repeatedly changed in a short period of time to defeat the organization's policy regarding password reuse.

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Configure the SUSE operating system to enforce 24 hours/one day or greater as the minimum password age for user accounts.

Change the minimum time period between password changes for each [USER] account to "1" day with the command, replacing [USER] with the user account that must be changed:

sudo passwd -n 1 [USER]

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23779

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000198, CCI|CCI-004066, Rule-ID|SV-234890r1009629_rule, STIG-ID|SLES-15-020210, Vuln-ID|V-234890

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 9051f92f81c541f5321844851a9548bcf17295329a15eca1597a4f1cac72b9f6